Former New Orleans newswoman Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager will be back in New Orleans next month to broadcast live from the New Orleans Jazz Museum, celebrating the fifth anniversary of the TODAY show with Hoda & Jenna as the French Quarter Festival kicks off around them.
The pair will host two shows, to be broadcast April 11 and 12, from the New Orleans Jazz Museum.
TODAY has become a regular visitor to New Orleans in spring. Last year, Kotb and Hager set up in Jackson Square, also at the start of the French Quarter Festival. In 2018, they taped two episodes from Washington Artillery Park — now Oscar Dunne Park — overlooking Jackson Square in celebration of the tricentennial of New Orleans.
The talkative twosome have also brought the show to New Orleans during the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane.
TODAY with Hoda & Jenna will broadcast live from the New Orleans Jazz Museum Thursday morning, April 11. The first show will air at 9 a.m. The second show will tape at 10:30 a.m. and will air Friday, April 12.
To join the audience, spectators should show up at the New Orleans Jazz Museum, 400 Esplanade Ave., at 7:15 a.m. (all times Central).
In addition to celebrating their anniversary, Kotb and Bush Hager will celebrate the first day of the city’s French Quarter Festival with The Original Pinettes Brass Band.
"The co-hosts will explore the city’s nightlife, spotlight local chefs and celebrate community heroes," a release said Monday. The shows are sponsored by New Orleans & Company.